Director
Erste Group Bank AG
Total years of experience :23 years, 10 Months
Director Corporate Finance Advisory; Vienna,
• Structure and provide tailor-made corporate financial solutions, incl. balance sheet restructuring
• Evaluate issues crucial to financial needs of companies
• Provide comprehensive financial advisory, including M&A and financial modelling
• Initiate, manage and successfully complete complex transactions
Director Group Large Corporates CEE - Structuring & x-border solutions; Vienna,
• Prepare, implement and monitor strategic solutions
• Coordinate & support CEE country teams in origination for and execution of financial service products, with strong focus on Serbia, Ukraine and Poland
• Manage Ukrainian portfolio, incl. stress testing, reporting, preparing proposal and implement related decisions
• Enhance x-sell throughout CEE and products, incl. structured trade finance, investment banking and leveraged finance through ensuring pro-active and solution oriented strategic dialogue, industry and product know how & modeling support
• Account management role for large x-border booked and/or complex transactions and in work-out situations, particularly in Ukraine
• Evaluate and approve credit facilities in line with existing approval authority and analyze & defend credit applications vis-à-vis other approval authorities
Investment Banking - Head of Corporate Finance Poland; Warsaw (2010-2012)
• Supervise & restructure corporate finance team in Poland
• Originate and execute transactions within the area of equity capital markets (IPO, Follow On, Advisory) and M&A (buy side and sell side advisory, taking private, PiPE)
• Support product teams in DCM, Infrastructure Finance and Leveraged buy outs
Investment Banking - focus on CEE, SEE & EE; Vienna (2005 - 2010)
• Origination and manage transactions in Equity Capital Markets (IPO, Follow On, Advisory; involving different stock exchange markets)
• Legal counsel and transaction support in M&A with a focus on CEE, SEE and EE
• Structure & support in alternative equity, equity linked products
Legal Counsel (2001-2005)
• Implement and advise on strategic corporate projects (J2W Stream, outsourcing, M&A, Implementation of EURO; 20-F documentation; etc)
• Implement and advise in major IT and media projects (i.e. AoN TV, New Media; Billing project) and sales projects (Door 2 Door Distribution, Outbound and Inbound sales)
• Draft, negotiate and implement contracts, including work agreements, project arrangement and international agreements (Middle East, CEE)
Trainee, Vienna Austria; (2000-2001)
• Audit and Security Management, ensuring contingency and legal compliance of IT environment
Linz, Mag. Iur
